Quotes About Insensitivity

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart

Stuff yourself full of kippers, Luke said. Then it will be impossible to feel anything at all.

Los hombres eran endurecidos en Rabka para que no se derrumbaran tras unas pocas semanas de servicios y tenían que hacerse insensibles a la sangre, a los gritos de agonía de mujeres y niños, debiendo realizar el trabajo con el mínimo ruido y la máxima eficacia

Ya no siente el menor desprecio sino una inmensa indiferencia.

I've often noticed that people equate "having a sense of humour" with "being an insensitive moron.")

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Even in the miserable guilt we feel over our beastlike insensitivity, the glory of God shines. If God were not gloriously desirable, why would we feel sorrowful for not feasting fully on His beauty?

Call it insensitivity or a passion for remorse, I have never undertaken to rescue what little Absolute this world contains.

Insensitive people are powerful and the thoroughly thick-skinned are the most powerful. They make the best tyrants.

T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

Someone's on the rag," she chides, then grabs her crotch as if adjusting a cup. "And it's not me.

Q: What do you call a fat Chinaman? A: A chunk.

Q: What did the Chinese couple name their special-needs baby? A: Sum Ting Wong.

so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.

In a way, I wish I could be like that. You'd never worry or care about anything that really mattered. You'd be happy, in the same pitiful way someone like our friend Ritchie is. Nothing affects you and you affect nothing.

Hypomania is protective. Hypomanic insensitivity prevents others' negative reactions from interfering with and decelerating the creative flow.

A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

If so, how do we feel about it?" "We are numb.

If we sound like a couple of callous assholes, it's because that's how we were raised.

There are three words you'll never hear a housewife say: How. Are. You. Because they don't care.

But a dead man doesn't care what uniform he's wearing.

And how much do I care about hurting their delicate feelings? Well, you could fit that inside the nucleus of a carbon atom.

You know, if you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.